Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-10-23

centre or middle portions Of both avenues.
reference is hereby made 70 The plot above
referred 10, and 10 be recorded herewith ~ a
rnrt hereof. for q shipper aud loss technical
Identification nnd description Of tho property
hereby intended 20 Do conveyed AMI dojica ei.
Witness the following signatures:
CTwAY =. ALLEN, lSoaii
ROGER GREGORY. lSeall
BETTE r OEEGORY, seal
y. N. WILSON. Seal
NAETuA ALLEN WILSON. Seal
FiT2RUCH LIE
President
Tnr Attest:
ITg MONUMENT A. W. HAEStN, IT..
ASSOCIATION. Acting Secretary.
The paper Is properly attes'ed, the
parties Of the firsy part having made
their Acknowledgements before Mr.. J. l..
Apperson and Fi,zhugh Lee, president
Of the second part, before c. Lee
Moore, Esq, both notarIes public.
Explanations ct .he Nap of tne
Grounds.
The following notes were prepared
for the DiSpdfch and viii furnish the
sort of information everybody wants:
Bread street IL il3 feet side.
Craze street IS t6 fee wide.
hcnuTsnt ave que IS 40 feet wide.
fianklin street II C5ii feet wide.
! ARK avenue Is C6 feet wide.
lcmhardy street Is CO feet vide.
Nipc street Is ~ feet wide.
Allen avenue b. liu feet wide
Tank street Is 90 feetWide.
Meadow street * 20 feet wide.
Iowlaud street is % feet wide.
Diameter Of circle D. 20 feet.
ALLEYS are 20 feet wide.
Ornamental areas i'm Monument and Anon
avenues are 40 feet vide.
Area of circle i.anOut ~ times the area of
The circle Of VI mrton Monument in tho
CAPITOL square.
1he contre Of the circle Is s2l feet from TIE
west side Of Lombardy street.
Tie centre Il the circle Il ~ feet from the
south side Of Broad street.
TIE ground a. Tue circle IS 6 feet higher than
the ground at the corner Of LOm0ariy and
Franklin streets.
The grades descend from the circle In every
direction.
The distance from the corporate limits 20 the
west side OF Lombardy street Is i50feeL
Tho distance from the corporate limits % the
edge q the circle is 57i feet or l0i yards.
Tho lots IN general y feet Wide aud from
10 10 $40 feet deep.
The Engineer OF the yonument
Grounds.
Mr.. c. p T.. Burgwyn, who is the
engineer employed by the Lee Monu-
ment Association, was born in 1852, in
Northampton county, \. G. He is the
son of the late Colonel Henry King and
Anna GreenouQh Burgwyn, and first
came to this city with his parents in
1866. For two years he was pupil in
the University School OF this city,
which was founded and az that time
conducted 10y the late }. NJ. Strother
and Professor Thomas t. Price, nowof
Columbia College. New York. He en-
tered Harvard College, Mass, in 1862,
aud graduated there in 1873. He then
entered the Engineering School OF Ilar-
ward and graduated in 1879. His first
work was at the astronomical obserya-
tory connected with the University Of
Cambridge on the inclined line method
Of determining latitude.
RETURN TO RICHMOND.
He returned TO Richmond in 1877
and opened an engineers Office. Soon
after establishing himself here in his
profession the Hollywood Cemetery
Company offered q prize OF $500 for the
best plan 10y which to lay of the new
addition Of thirty-6ve acres to the
cemetery. Five or six prominent en-
Qinoers ard architects competed with
Mr.. Burgwyn for the prize, which was
nevertheless awarded 20 him. Shorty
after tie great freshet of 1877 he rode
over tie line of the James-Riycr and
KanaWho canal for Franklin Stearns.
ESQ, and his associates, and his report
Of the condition of the route, the result
Of his survey on horseback, which was
submitted to Colonel II. ID. Whitcomb,
was the commencement Of tue Rich
mond and Allegheny Railroad Com
pany.
UNDER TIE GOVERNMENT.
In 1873 Mr. Burgwyn was assistant
engineer on the Government survey for
inland watsrroute between Norfolk and
Wilmington. In 1880 he was assistant
engineer on the James-riyer improve
ment under Colonel II. d. Whitcomb,
and in 1881, on the resignation Of Colo
mel Whitcomb, he succeeded that
officer as United States assistant engi-
neer in local charge Of the improve
ment. In 1855 when, owing to the
failure Of the appropriation by Con
gress, the funds fo1 the James River
Improvement were exhausted, thus
causing a suspension Of the work. he
entered the service of the city Of Rich
mond as assistant engineer and shortly
afterwards was made supervising ARCH
tect OF the new City Hall, which posi-
ton he resigned when, by reason of
another appropriation by Congress, the
work on the James-riyer improvement
was resumed.
CONSULTING ENGINEER.
The great work Of the improvement.
of James river being 50 intermittent on
account Of the failure OF appropril-
tons, Mr.. Burgwyn has had sufficient
leisure to serve as consulting engineer.
in which capacity he laid out the new
Catholic cemetery, Calvary He also
designed and built the screw dock for
the city Of Richmond.
The Cutting OF the Cornerstone.
The following employees of the
United States custom-house extension
dressed the stone for the corner stone
OF the Leee monument, with Mr.. Z.
J. Smith in charge j. X. Gibson,
James HOnan, G. A. Cole, 7. r. Otey.
c. A. Romer, W F. Sinnott, George
f. Smith, G. T. Hancock blacksmith,
and John Ford driller. Two stones.
one as a base with l4"xlF'xs" cavity
for the receptacle of the box. the other
as cover are 1919. 9"x3 feet, and
together weigh about three and half
tons. The stones were gift OF tn
Granite Company, and the
hauling to the site will be done by Mr.
StOrs.
The employees of the custom-house
who did this work performed it entirely
in their spare time or after their days
labor at the custom-house, and it is en-
tirely work of love.
The SCULPTOR.